Brock v. St. James Parish Council

BOUTALL, Judge.

This appeal is the sequel to the prior case of Brock v. St. James Parish Council, 400 So.2d 745 (La.App. 4th Circuit 1981). That case was an election contest suit in which this same plaintiff, Henry J. Brock, challenged the outcome of a sales tax election in St. James Parish and sought injunctive relief against the imposition of the proposed sales tax. After our decision in that case, the St. James Parish Council passed an emergency ordinance ordaining that the 1% sales tax to be imposed- by the election was not to be imposed parishwide, that is, it would not be levied in the…